Year 1 Spelling

20 September 2013

Here are this week’s spellings; please remember to make sure that your child learns the correct spellings.

These spellings will be tested on Friday 27 September.

When you are practising the spellings, try and make it as fun as possible so that the children remember them: eg you can use magnetic letters, write the spellings in shaving foam or flour, ask your child to test you and then let them mark them or write the words on cards and play snap.  If you need any support then please come and ask.

13 September 2013

If you are familiar with how we have done spellings in KS1 previously, then you will see that we are trying something different this year.

All the children in Y1 and Y2 have been mixed up depending on their phonic knowledge.  There is a daily phonics lesson, ensuring a secure knowledge which can be applied in writing and reading.

There are three groups: red, yellow and green.  The children know which group they are in and there is a coloured sticker on the front of their learning list book.  You will notice that the spellings below are grouped in these colours so please make sure you know which list you should be learning with your child.  The spellings are linked with previous learning.

All spellings will be tested on Friday 20 September.

If you have any questions please come and ask.

05 July 2013

This week, we are spelling words we use in our everyday writing.

They will be tested on Friday 12 July 2013.

28 June 2013

This week’s spellings look at words we have come across in our Big Topic. They are all about the farm. These words will be tested on Friday 05 July 2013.

21 June 2013

This week, we are spelling words we use in our everyday writing.

They will be tested on Friday 28 June 2013.

14 June 2013

There will be no usual spelling test next week, and so no new words to learn this week. Instead of the normal test, the national phonics screening test will take place.  There is no date set for which children will be tested on which day; as always, avoid unnecessary absences.

I suggest children spend each night looking through old spelling lists. Get your child to read and sound out the words.

Please see me if you have any questions.

07 June 2013

This week, we’re revisiting words which have a split digraph.

Remember a split digraph is when the ‘e’ at the end of words works with another letter to make a longer sound. Think about the difference between hop and hope – both have three sounds (phonemes), but the split digraph in hope creates a ‘long o’ sound. Other examples in the list below is the difference between Tim and time and made and made.

These words will be tested on Friday 14 June.

It’s the half-term break…

…so there’s no homework or spellings this week.  Enjoy the holiday, whatever you get up to.

17 May 2013

This week we are looking at a trigraph: a three letter grapheme, where three letters represent one sound (phoneme), as in air (three letters making one sound).

These words will be tested on Friday 25 May 2013.

10 May 2013

This week, we’re learning to spell words with alternative spellings for the ‘long i’ phoneme – the ‘long i’ sound in words such as those in the list.  Some words use igh, some use i-e, some use a y (often at the end of the word).

You can help your child’s spelling:

• look out for these when reading, or anywhere in the home, in shops etc
• prepare labels with igh, i-e, y – read out words and see if your child can say which spelling pattern (which grapheme) they use
• think about other words which use igh, i-e or y to create a ‘long i’ sound – how many can your child find?
• are there other ways to create this sound?

These words will be tested on Friday 17 May 2013.